Chelsea Legend Inspires Mason Mount

DBasia.news –  Chelsea legend, John Terry, became one of the idols that inspired Chelsea youth, Mason Mount.

Mason Tony Mount was not born and raised in London, but Portsmouth. The distance that is not too far between Portsmouth and the British capital allows Chelsea to recruit players born on January 10, 1999, to their football academy.

Joined in 2005, Mount spent a total of 12 years studying as an academy player. Typically a football club, the players at the academy also had the opportunity to meet several of their seniors who inhabited the first team.

The way it is usually done by clubs to motivate the players in the academy team to develop themselves, including Mason Mount. The success story of how John Terry graduated from the Chelsea academy to reap success as a first-team, was inspired by the junior.

For your information, John Terry is actually not purely a Chelsea academy product. However, he joined the West London club’s youth team in 1995 when he was 15 years old. Had a loan at Nottingham Forest in 2000, John Terry then returned to Chelsea at the start of the 2001-2002 season.

The British player even managed to survive amid the arrival of star players who marked the Roman Abramovich era at the start of the 2003-2004 season. John Terry was instead made the captain so a famous banner appeared at Stamford Bridge Stadium, ‘John Terry, Captain, Leader, Legend’.

The career journey certainly inspired children in the academy like Mason Mount. He often took the time to approach John Terry when he got the chance to train at Cobham with the senior team and take photos.

Mason’s father, Tony Mount, in an interview once revealed his son’s ambition to imitate John Terry’s steps at Chelsea. He had insisted on banning his son from taking the opportunity to enter the club’s academy because he was not known to be friendly to young players.

“I told Mason, he had to move to get the best opportunity. No player from the Chelsea academy has entered the first team since John Terry. Mason then said he would be the next!” Tony Mount said, quoted by The Sun.